Opinion. “Los derechos, sin las mujeres, no son humanos” (Without women, there are no human rights) is a common slogan painted onto fabric signs carried at women’s protests in Nicaragua. Women’s networks and feminist organizations continue to organize to promote...

Feminist leaders say there is a diverging reality gap between Nicaragua’s progressive legislative efforts to protect women’s rights and the country’s predominant culture of impunity and machismo which create a permissive environment for gender violence. “The problem is not the...

Opinion. If you bring up the topic of violence against woman to 10 people anywhere in the world, you’ll likely get 10 opinions about how common it is, why it happens, and how to eliminate it. Reading experts’ assessments yields...

Editor’s note: violence against women in Nicaragua has reached epidemic levels. Actually, it’s worse than that. In 2011, 370,000 women in Nicaragua reported being victims of domestic or sexual violence—57 times higher than the World Health Organization’s definition of an...

Under the banner “I accuse the State of Nicaragua,” various feminist and human-rights organizations marched on the Supreme Court Sept. 28 to demand the restitution of therapeutic abortion and to report some rather grim statistics on how the government is...

(posted June 12, 8:00 a.m.)- International human rights group Women’s Link Worldwide has “awarded” Nicaragua’s Supreme Court the “Public’s Bludgeon award” for its noteworthy handling of the Fatima Hernández case. “The court reduced a rape conviction on the grounds that...

LA GRECIA, Matagalpa—In Nicaragua, a country where most people identify as Catholic or Evangelical Christian, sex education is a delicate topic. Yet it has a critical impact on young people’s health and sexual and reproductive rights.   Nicaragua has the...

MATAGALPA- Indie rockers, singer/songwriters, folk pioneers, and revolutionary poets. These are all descriptions that apply to musicians Elsa Basil, Gaby Baca, Clara Grün, and Katia Cardenal, who rocked out Saturday night in honor of International Women’s Day. At a free...

MANAGUA—Women from all corners of Nicaragua descended on Managua Thursday to celebrate International Women’s Day. Accompanied by the drums of the feminist group Batacuda Feminista and decked out in bright purple and white, the women chanted and marched through the...

Introduction The Integral Law Against Violence Against Women, passed last month, has as its principal antecedent the legislative initiative promoted by the Network of Women Against Violence, which in 1995-1996 proposed a bill that eventually became Law 230, sanctioning domestic...